Thank you very much for that.
To the Schoutens, as a parent myself, a grandparent and a physician who has sat with many people who have lost their children, I know that it's the most difficult thing, and I'm so sorry for your loss.
Our challenge is to try to understand this in a much more complex way. You help us think about important issues. This is going to be a difficult question, but I want you to grapple with it, please.
Your son chose to die in a specific way. We respect that. We respect his choice of how to do it, surrounded by his family and the support that you gave him. We also know that all of those in similar circumstances would necessarily make the same choice. We also know that not all families in the same circumstances would also make the same choice. Do you respect that others in similar circumstances may choose a different path for their end of life, one that might be different from your son's, and might have a perspective that is different from yours?
Maybe they have different values, different ways of understanding the world. Would you respect it if their choice and their family's choice was MAID, or should they be denied access to MAID?